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Re: Found a crack on top of my Big Muddy

I have a Parsons flat top, which is not dissimilar to a Big Muddy, that I bought used. It came with a crack in the top that ran right down the middle from the end of the fretboard to the soundhole. It was not actually a crack in the wood itself, but the two pieces that formed the top pulling apart. But it still sounded and played really well, so I decided to keep it. My luthier mitigated it with a thin piece of wood vernier glued under the crack with superglue. It has held up for about 15 years with no problems.

Re: Found a crack on top of my Big Muddy

A flat top mandolin is one of the easier things to fix. If the crack is fresh, you can often over humidify it to close the crack back up, inject glue (preferable hot hide glue) and clamp. The trick is, having claps that will reach inside.